Category Archives: References

Wi-Fi Calling – read all about it…

Wi-Fi Calling is relatively new – and then, not really. In 2014, Apple’s launch of iOS 8 with embedded Wi-Fi Calling marked a milestone for voice calling with mobile devices, despite several years of Voice over Wi-Fi services in various guises preceding iOS 8.

Aptilo Networks – a leading provider of carrier-class systems to manage data services with advanced functions for authentication, policy control and charging – has released a White Paper titled “Seamless Next Generation Wi-Fi Calling”, which is written by Allan Greve of tefficient.

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How carriers are using Wi-Fi across the world

One year elapsed since the previous Wi-Fi conference in Europe and carriers’ deployment of Wi-Fi has never been faster.

The graph is fetched from our presentation in the Wi-Fi NOW conference in Amsterdam yesterday and shows the number of hotspots in green and homespots in amber for 45 reporting carriers globally (click to enlarge): Continue reading How carriers are using Wi-Fi across the world

Save, borrow, be rewarded with, give away Gbytes. The new currency?

Back from two mind-blowing days in Helsinki, we sense that nobody – organisers, speakers, participants – on beforehand actually had a notion of just how great the Nexterday North “anti-seminar” would turn out to be. Continue reading Save, borrow, be rewarded with, give away Gbytes. The new currency?

Network sharing JV benchmark 2015

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For the third consecutive year: Comprehensive business benchmark including a total of 159 KPIs covering revenue, OPEX, CAPEX, TCO, productivity, traffic load and network quality – with a peer group solely consisting of network sharing joint ventures. Continue reading Network sharing JV benchmark 2015

Nordic operator benchmark 2015

Benchmarks, 2015 Nordic flags

For the third consecutive year: Comprehensive business benchmark including more than 500 KPIs covering revenue, OPEX, CAPEX, headcount productivity, subscriptions & channels, performance, load, quality and innovation & growth – for 33 functions within a mobile operator, within a fixed/cable operator and/or within an integrated operator – respectively. Continue reading Nordic operator benchmark 2015

Operator proposition & positioning analysis and workshops

Analysis & Go-to-market, 2015

Preparing analysis of the commercial and financial development for competing operators – aligning it with their respective propositions and positioning. Focusing on the operators in the market in question – but supplementing it with analysis of other international markets relevant to take learning from and apply in a local context. Continue reading Operator proposition & positioning analysis and workshops

OPEX and CAPEX breakdown for operators in seven large countries

Analysis & Go-to-market, 2015

Providing a global solutions provider with a country-per-country OPEX and CAPEX breakdown comparison between all major operators in seven large countries – based on combining operator reported figures, regulatory data, market data and operators’ communicated plans & targets with tefficient‘s understanding of what is industry typical given market position and strategy.

Contributing to Comptel’s book “Operation Nexterday”

Analysis & Go-to-market 2015

comptel_logo_bwIn cooperation with key Comptel experts, writing and editing key parts of Comptel’s book “Operation Nexterday” which was launched at Mobile World Congress 2015.

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